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Central America produced some relatively good news. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte won an election that was viewed from the outset as difficult even to hold, let alone conduct fairly. He perhaps endangered his own life by making a peace offering to the guerrillas. The direction of events was murkier in Nicaragua. The U.S. stirred up a storm among Congressmen and the nation's allies when it came out that the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in order to discourage Soviet and Cuban arms shipments. Reagan encountered further trouble over U.S. funding of the contra...
...Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador and Raúl Alfonsin of Argentina, two leaders who symbolize democracy, peace and social justice for Latin America...
...reporter-researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned antisuffragist who easily alternated between exposés of the Beef Trust and fawning profiles of historical heroes (Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln) and even corporate chieftains (U.S. Steel's Elbert Gary, General Electric's Owen Young). With Tarbell-like thoroughness, Brady describes a defiantly single woman wasting her talent on hasty magazine articles and much of her life in platonic friendships with adoring male colleagues. Until her death...
Reagan will have an easier time getting funding to bolster the regime of Jose Napoleon Duarte in El Salvador. The challenge is to keep Duarte alive, literally as well as politically, while he tries to negotiate with the leftist rebels without losing support of the military or provoking Salvador's violent right wing...
Father Christopher Brinckley, a follow at the Institute of Politics who was a missionary in EI Salvador for 12 years, said that while he was in EI Salvador over the summer, he had heard of plots to assassinate President Jose Napoleon Duarte. If that happened U.S. troops would be used, he said...